Apr 28, 2005 - Sale 2040

Sale 2040 - Lot 26

Price Realized: $ 2,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
CHAPELAIN, JEAN. La Pucelle; ou, La France Délivrée. [52], 522, [14] pages, including engraved additional title, engraved portraits by Robert Nanteuil of Chapelain and the dedicatee, the Duc de Longueville, 12 full-page engraved illustrations by Abraham Bosse after Claude Vignon, and final blank. Folio, 420x276 mm, contemporary red morocco lavishly gilt-tooled to all-over pattern of repeated fleurs-de-lys, lower outer corner of front cover worn through; occasional toning and light marginal dampstaining. wide-margined copy, handsomely bound. Paris: (Jean Roger for) Augustin Courbé, 1656

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